cvs commit: src/sys/boot/i386/boot0 boot0.S

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Apr 21 14:55:53 PDT 2005


> On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 09:00:26PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote..
> > Wilko Bulte <wb at freebie.xs4all.nl> writes:
> > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 03:42:28PM +0000, David E. O'Brien wrote..
> > > >   Log:
> > > >   MFC: rev 1.14: remove type 0x4 (FAT12 <32MB) to make room for type 0x7 (NTFS).
> > > As a matter of curiosity, how does this impact people with minimal FreeBSD
> > > systems running out of (granted...) very small flashroms for example?
> > 
> > Last I checked, you can't boot FreeBSD off a FAT partition.
> 
> Eh um..  <runs to the fridge for a beer>

But DOS will boot from a FAT partition.  Scott is right that this
changes changes the DOS to ??? in that case...

Warner


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